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Drama 10

I was arrested on charges of defrauding men last summer...

...for attempting to murder someone by starting a gas leak which caused an arson fire...

...and for suspicion of murder.

I'll definitely get you sent to prison.

Among the new lawyers who would be in charge of my case...

...was one I had taught as a tutor, ten years ago...

...and who was a boy I fell in love with for one Summer.

Everything about your existence was a lie.

I have no reason TO kill anyone!

Sensei.

I wonder what he thinks of me now?

She's a villainess, isn't she?

She isn't a villainess.

The Defendant is not a villainess.

She's a saint. She's a very saint herself.

I... loved you.

You are... the only one I ever loved.

I definitely want to win this trial.

Win the trial...

And then this time, I will...

Hijii Motoko-san. It's time for your court appearance.

Yes.

Trial - First Round

Well then, Prosecutor, the indictment.

Yes.

First off, the facts of the indictment...

...made by the Prosecutors on June 26th, 2013.

The Defendant, on October 12, 2012...

...at Mt. Mineyama in Kanagawa Prefecture, Isehara-shi...

...in regards to Bando Yukio-san.

She assaulted him by kicking at Bando-san's hand with her feet with the intention of killing him...

...thereby causing said person to fall off the cliff, which inflicted head wounds, bruises, etc. on him...

...and where she allowed the aforementioned to die from his injuries at that time, thus killing him.

The charge and punishment articles in this case are for murder.

Ehh... To continue, on October 29th, 2009...

...in Agawa Hiroyuki-san's home in Minato-ku, Tokyo...

...she had him swallow a large amount of the sleeping pills she had bought....

...when they were living together at that time.

With murderous intent, she opened the gas valve and allowed gas to leak out...

...thus letting him die.

Next, on December 4th, 2012...

...in Chikura Taizo-san's apartment in Tokyo's Nerima-ku...

...the Defendant purchased kerosene and set fire to it, in an attempt to murder him.

The man became aware of the fire and, in his excitement...

...allowed himself to fall out his window on the second floor...

...where, inflicted with a brain contusion, etc...

...her intent to murder him went unaccomplished.

The charges and punishment articles in this case are for arson of their living area and attempted murder.

Defendant.

Are there any mistakes in the facts of each of these indictments?

Yes.

I haven't murdered anyone.

I didn't even try to murder anyone.

In the facts of the indictment made by the Prosecution, on July 20th...

...you, the Defendant, gave Agawa-san sleeping pills that day.

Yes.

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Bando Yuko-san's Character

Bando-san, a TV station Producer...

...was excellent at his work and cordial, trusted by his bosses.

Episode 4 "The Woman Who is Judged"

Two years before, this Bando-san had met the Defendant...

...at a party for the very wealthy at a restaurant he had opened in Akasaka.

At the party's final nomination time...

...Bando-san nominated the Defendant, but the Defendant demurred.

Once the party was over, Bando-san and the Defendant...

...exchanged such things as e-mail addresses between them.

After the party and the Defendant and Bando-san had exchanged e-mail addresses

Bando : Why wouldn't you let me nominate you? It's too bad.

"Why wouldn't you let me nominate you?"

"It's too bad."

"Bando-san, you seem popular with women."

"I'm looking for someone I can socialize seriously with."

After the party and the Defendant and Bando-san had exchanged e-mail addresses

Defendant: Bando-san, you seem popular with women.

I'm looking for someone I can socialize seriously with

Bando: Huh? Seriously?

"Huh? Seriously?"

"A man who would consider me sincerely and would treat me with respect."

The next day, Bando-san met the Defendant at a coffee shop...

"To learn art on a more technical level..."

"...I want to study abroad in Paris," she told him.

He then transferred 1 million yen to her account that same day.

In other words, "respect" to the Defendant...

...has the same meaning as being paid money.

From the start, the Defendant's purpose in getting close to Bando-san was to get money from him.

The Defendant would go begging to him many times thereafter...

...until Bando-san had handed money over to the Defendant to the tune of 5.8 million yen.

However, to the Defendant...

...Bando-san, with his serious demands for marriage, was gradually becoming a troublesome man for her...

Defense's Opening Statement

The Defendant has, from the start...

...recognized that she holds both love and money in equal measure.

She has admitted, "I took money."

"However, I took that money through deep love..."

"...and not by murdering for it," she asserts.

The Defendant is the type who is susceptible to misunderstandings...

...but is actually a very serious woman.

The majority of the money she received from men...

...was used for learning languages.

And, in addition, towards the men she has dated until now...

...she held feelings of respect and gratitude...

...and gave serious consideration to marrying them.

With one exception, Bando-san.

Bando-san was, ostensibly, a very gentlemanly man.

But on the other hand, on his cell phone...

...he had over 100 women's addresses listed...

...and most of them had been classified under a "SF" folder.

What do you think that "SF" stood for?

Bando-san proudly told this to the Defendant.

"Fool. It stands for Sex Friends of course."

Of course the Defendant's name was also listed under that folder.

The Defendant, not having consented to that, told him she wanted him to stop it...

...but Bando-san said, "I've paid you money, so don't go complaining about this."

"You're just a terribly high-class prostitute," and then laughed it off.

Bando-san had paid her the money...

...but he was clearly not the man the Defendant had demanded good faith from.

The Defendant, who had come to know this aspect of him...

...began talking to Bando-san about breaking up.

Then Bando-san suddenly became violently attached to the Defendant.

"You're the only one special to me. Let's get married," he told her.

He would call her over and over and even ambushed her in front of her home.

The Defendant, feeling afraid, changed her phone number...

...and moved as well...

...but Bando-san hired a detective who then located the Defendant.

"Please, let's meet just one more time"...

...he begged, crying.

And so, reluctantly, the Defendant allowed herself to be taken out to Mt. Mineyama...

...where he threatened her by saying, "Rather than breaking up, let's die together."

And then he struggled with the Defendant, who tried to stop him...

...and the result was that he lost his footing and fell off the cliff.

Even if the Defendant was trying to kick Bando-san off her foot at that time...

...it was an action she took out of necessity in order to avoid danger...

...and was not an illegal act.

That accident was one Bando-san himself caused.

He was, so to speak, reaping what he had sown...

Wait! What was that just now?!

My younger brother is dead! He's a victim!

Even though he's the victim, what's with that insult...

The spectators will please refrain from making remarks.

Counsel. Please speak only about the facts from here on.

Please excuse me.

The Defendant took the entire weight of Bando-san's body on her foot.

She was desperate not to fall off herself.

Eh... Well then, please tell us about the events of the day of the incident.

Trial - Second Round

Bando Yuko Murder Case Witness Questioning

Yes.

Witness: Katase Misato

I was walking along the mountain path when I heard loud voices.

What is this! Geez... Let me go.

Don't get angry.

The woman looked angry about something...

...and it seemed they were fighting.

Have some.

What sort of situation were the two of them in on the cliff?

The man was clinging to her while the woman was angry.

I could see her kicking at the man's hand, over and over again.

Site Sketch

This Point B is where you, the Witness, were taking your break.

And Point A is where he fell off the cliff.

The distance between you and the victim...

...was approximately 700 meters in a straight line.

For comparison, that's the distance between the Yoyogi rail station and Yamamote line station.

Or between stations along the Shinjuku line.

At that distance, could you really see it?

The Defendant kicking at the man's hand over and over again.

Yes.

Because her white shoes were so conspicuous.

Is that right.

In fact, the shoe on the Defendant's dominant foot, her right, had been left behind on the top of the cliff.

It had already come off during her struggles with the victim.

In addition, her other shoe...

...came off when Bando-san was clinging to the Defendant's foot.

Then... then maybe she was barefoot.

I'll change the question.

On October 14th, two days after you had made your mountain climb...

...you bought a pair of glasses from a glasses store in Shinjuku, didn't you?

Ah...

At that time, you increased the strength in the right lens by two degrees. Why was that?

Ah...

When taking photos, I'm always looking through the viewfinder using my right eye...

...but I'd been having a little difficulty seeing...

Difficulty seeing?

You had difficulty seeing, didn't you?

Well...

It's okay.

I'm not blaming you.

However, please allow me to confirm this one more time since it is important.

You had seen the quarrel between Bando-san and the Defendant beforehand.

After that, by coincidence and from afar, you happened to see the two of them as they nearly fell off the cliff.

Yes.

As I watched only the man fall...

...I thought, "Ah, I've just seen a murder."

I thought I had seen something incredible.

What you really saw...

...was just the man falling off the cliff.

Because you had seen the two of them quarreling earlier...

...isn't there the possibility you had convinced yourself that the Defendant had murdered him?

Well...

This is all from Lawyer Nakamura.

Defense Counsel. Do you wish to continue cross-examining the witness, Katase-san, any longer?

No.

Prosecutor.

Do you have anything to add?

We don't.

Could it be the beauty Defendant was falsely accused?!

The Spectators Sigh at her Beauty, too

I feel sorry for Chikura-san's wife.

Though her husband tells her it's okay not to come, even so, she still comes every day.

What did the doctor say to Chikura-san?

That he still can't go out yet.

Of course he can't.

Even so he's saying, "But I want to appear in court and testify!"

That lawyer's the one at fault.

Because he keeps prodding Chikura-san along with, "With your testimony, Hijii Motoko could be found innocent."

Ala?

Isn't "that lawyer" your future husband?

Ah... It's okay, it's okay.

Because we've decided not to contact one another until after the trial is over.

Really?

Well, I'm outta here.

Thanks for your hard work.

Thanks for yours.

I guess I am being strange...

Why am I jealous of a woman like her?

The President was always facing forward...

...and wasn't the type of person who'd commit suicide.

Trial - Third Round

Agawa Hiroyuki Murder Case Witness Questioning

I absolutely believe he was killed.

Oh... is that right.

Why do you think that?

Agawa Hiroyuki's Former subordinate

Witness: Yamazaki Masashi

That's...

I had worked under President Agawa ever since he founded it.

She seduced the President...

...and I thought he was being confused by her the entire time he was with her.

She is defiantly a villainess.

That smart President was aware from the very start that that woman's...

...name and history were lies.

He knew it all!

But saying, "she's a lonely woman," he lavished her with money.

For that woman, who had no qualifications...

...the President advised her to call herself an Art Coordinator.

And yet this woman forgot the favors he did for her...

I understand.

Sorry, but let's go back to this story.

You met with Agawa-san on the day before he died, didn't you?

Yes.

I reported to him on the settlement of accounts.

At that time, did Agawa-san speak to you about the Defendant?

Yes.

He felt the company's performance wasn't where it should be...

...so the President felt he should use his own money and allocate it towards its management.

And yet this woman...

"I want to take the qualifications to be a Curator."

"I don't have enough money," she said.

I see.

Do you know if Agawa-san could have answered the Defendant's demands?

"Even so, I still want to pay her," he said.

"That's why I can't lose here."

"I have to work much, much harder," he said, facing forward...

The President was facing forward and laughing right to the end!

When the business Agawa-san had founded went bankrupt...

...that was only six months after Agawa-san's death, wasn't it?

Yes. But that was just by chance...

What with Agawa-san's worries over his company's management...

...as well as his increasing fear and unease at being abandoned by the Defendant...

...can you really say there is zero possibility it led him to commit suicide?

You guys don't know anything about that woman.

It's only BECAUSE you don't know her that you can defend such a murderer!

The Witness will not make irrelevant statements.

Defense Counsel, please continue.

Yes.

Well then, Yamazaki-san.

I will ask some specific questions about the company's debt situation.

Yes.

Your suppliers, on October 5th, 2009....

Well then, we will adjourn.

We will resume at 1pm.

Excuse me.

Could I have a moment with her?

On the issue of the witness questioning after the adjournment...

Have you come to hate me?

Huh?

A courtroom is an unpleasant place, isn't it?

It's like a theater for showing off the unpleasant aspects of human beings.

What makes you say that?

I...

...am here in order to protect you.

Are you a little tired?

Don't worry.

Please just look your usual dignified self.

Yes.

Thank you very much.

Well, it is time for a sigh to come out, isn't it?

The true nature of the Sensei who you had a crush on...

...is steadily becoming clearer, after all.

Ah... No, that's not...

You have to prevent it from being exposed.

If, in the past...

...between you and Hijii Motoko...

...there was something more than being a tutor and her student...

...you had better make absolutely certain that no one finds that out.

Ever.

Got that?

Women in their 20's

How was it, actually attending the trial?

It was so cool, wasn't it?

It was like there were pins going up and down my back.

She was pretending to flatter men but was just leading them by the nose.

Thank you very much.

Take care.

Among the experts, the possibility the Prosecutor will be able to get the death penalty for her seems remote.

The degree of attention the Defendant, Hijii Motoko, receives as the trial continues just keeps increasing.

Among them, there are individuals who have started a fan club and set up websites...

...due to the increasing interest in the Defendant, Hijii Motoko...

Are you okay?

This should be enough.

There shouldn't be any problems if you can testify just as you have until now.

Is that right.

Thank goodness.

No matter what...

...I just have to save Maria.

Please help us out.

Dear.

You...

Here... I'll return this.

Divorce Registration

What are you talking about?

I...

...will NEVER divorce you.

Please hurry and realize it.

That you have been tricked.

You have been fooled.

Why don't you understand that?

Shut up.

Be quiet.

I won't be quiet.

Until you hurry up and realize that...

...and until you return to your true self...

...I will NEVER give up on you!

Shut up!

Get out!

Dear!

Chikura-san, please calm down.

Please calm down.

I'm a fool, aren't I...

If he revived...

...and if he regained consciousness...

...I thought we could go back to how we were in the past.

Before he met that woman...

It was just an ordinary one...

...but I wanted to go back to...

...the happiness we had then.

And yet...

If this was going to happen...

...it would have been better if he had just gone on sleeping forever.

Chikura-san.

I'm on your side, Chikura-san.

Please don't lose.

I'm sure...

I'm sure that someday your husband will realize just who it is that's important to him.

Thank you.

Thank you...

Thank you...

Ah... Izumi.

Is she okay?

Yeah. She's going home now.

I see...

Well...

I'm very sorry for all the bother I've made.

Say, Haru-chan.

Huh?

Um... that Hijii Motoko-san...

If she's found innocent, I wonder if she's promised to marry Chikura-san?

Eh?

Well, not that it matters to me.

The trial will end soon, won't it? Good luck.

Since I'll be waiting for you to contact me.

Yeah.

Courthouse

Well then, please tell us of your relationship to the Defendant.

Trial - Fourth Round

She's an acquaintance from my college days.

Did you have a good relationship?

No. It wasn't all that much of one.

She invited me just once to go to a party.

And because she would treat all my friends...

...she asked me to bring along a bunch of cute girls with me.

Witness: Naito Akane

When we went, it turned out to be a party organized by Agawa-san.

Naito-san, were you an acquaintance of Agawa-san?

No.

That was the first day I had met him, but Ozawa-san...

...or rather, Hijii-san, happily introduced me to him.

That was when the Defendant and Agawa-san began dating?

That's what I was told by Hijii-san.

You heard it from Hijii-san?

Yes.

When I asked, "what happened after that?"...

...she said, "Since he's a very ideal person, I've been going out with him."

What did you think when you heard that?

Umm... to be honest...

Because he wasn't much to my taste...

...I asked her, "What's so good about him? Isn't this just about his money?"

And then she laughed and said...

"Money is important."

"A man who treats money as important..."

"...is someone who will treat the one they love importantly, too."

And I thought, "Ehh... she's an adult."

I see.

Did you ever meet Hijii-san once she stopped coming to the college?

No.

She changed her cell phone number, so we lost contact.

But...

I did meet Agawa-san.

By chance, five years ago.

Could you tell me more about that?

Yes.

It was October 19th.

He looked like he was tired somehow.

So I got a little interested and called out to him.

It seemed he didn't remember me at all...

...but when I mentioned I was a friend of Maria's...

...he happily talked to me about a lot of things.

About how his company was on the brink of bankruptcy...

...and about how cold Maria had become to him because of that.

I wasn't sure what to say to him...

...so I just told him, "you can do it."

And then he said...

But... if she abandons me...

...it'd be better if I was dead already.

"It'd be better if I was dead."

Yes.

He surely said that.

Even though he wasn't the sort of person who would ever say such a thing.

That's why, when I read the newspapers...

...I thought, "Ah... he really did kill himself."

Trial - Fifth Round

Chikura Taizo Attempted Murder Case Witness Questioning

We meet at last...

The apartment I had prepared for the two of us to live in...

Witness: Chikura Taizo

...was very drafty...

...so I asked Maria-san to go and buy some kerosene.

Do you have any idea what the cause of the fire was?

Yes.

I'm sure I had...

...fallen asleep and forgotten to properly put out my cigarette.

I do remember...

...Maria-san gently covering me with a futon though.

The fire occurred from the mismanagement of a fire...

Do you mean the one you had left as it was?

Yes, that's right.

Then you...!

Then it was you who set that fire.

Yes.

You're positive that it was your mismanagement of a cigarette that caused the fire?

Yes.

With apologies to my wife, I...

We had fallen in love.

In love?

Right.

That's why I wanted to give my wife and daughter all my property in a divorce...

...and I thought she and I would live poor but happily in that apartment.

So if anything should happen to me...

...I took out some insurance on myself.

She is innocent.

Innocent!

She's innocent!

She's innocent!

Chikura-san.

The Witness will please calm down.

Maehara-san!

It's finally the end stage of the trial...

...but how does the Defendant appear?

Is it true a support group for the Defendant has been set up?

Maehara-san!

Director Maehara!

Chikura-san did well, didn't he?

Yeah. Nakamura.

Yes?

You take the closing arguments.

Eh?

Yes!

Courthouse

Prosecution Closing Arguments

It is the opinion of the Prosecutor's office...

...after taking into consideration all the above-mentioned circumstances...

...that it is reasonable the Defendant be sentenced to twenty years in prison.

That is all.

Closing Arguments

Hijii Motoko-san...

...didn't murder anyone.

It's true Hijii-san...

...did receive a lot of money from the men she was dating.

But...

What's so wrong about receiving money?

People who are called full-time homemakers receive a salary from their spouse...

...for making delicious meals and protecting the home...

...while those called mistresses...

...live instead on receiving apartments and money in exchange for providing comfort and passion.

That was all she was, too.

But...

...what's different about her is that she was up front about it.

"As long as there is love, I don't need anything else."

Rather than tell such facile lies; she instead spoke openly about how important money was to her.

It was only that.

She...

...needed and loved those men in the same way...

...that any ordinary, happy couple would.

Such a woman...

...couldn't have murdered them.

Chikura-san...

...said this to me right after he regained consciousness.

"She is a saint."

That is the truth.

With this, the trial will be finished for you.

Is there anything you wish to say at the end?

I...

...thought my way of life was the right one.

No...

...I was convinced how I was doing things was right.

But...

...when I came here, I finally realized it.

That I had done a great many wrong things.

I feel how sorry I am...

...for having inconvenienced both them and all their families.

But...

I...

...didn't murder anyone.

If...

If I'm allowed to...

...I want to re-do my life over once more.

And this time, I will think about myself...

...and about the human being my Mother prayed I would be...

I think I'll want to strive to be...

...a human being such as that.

Judgment Day

In regards to the Defendant, Hijii Motoko...

...and the incident of attempted murder involving a gas leak and the attempted murder-arson...

...we will now announce our judgment.

Defendant, come forward.

In the main sentence, the Defendant...

...in the facts detailed in the indictments for June 26, 2013 and August 13th of the same year for which you were charged...

...you are found innocent in both.

For the indictment by the Prosecution detailed for July 20th of that same year...

...we have dismissed those against the Defendant.

Start an appeal going immediately.

From here, we will discuss our reasons for this decision.

The Defendant will draw a chair before the witness stand...

...and please sit there while listening.

Since there is a great deal of press out front, we'll take you out the back way.

Yes.

Hijii-san!

Hijii-san!

Just a word with us!

Some over here, too, huh?

I will deal with the press after this.

Take care of her after this.

Yes.

Excuse me!

We'll discuss all about this at the press conference.

From here we'll head to the New Tokyo Hotel.

Since we have reserved a room for you for the entire month...

...please stay there until you've settled your personal affairs.

Tomorrow, let's see...

...you'll have the press conference at 1pm, so...

When will you come?

It's okay now, isn't it?

I'm no longer a Defendant any more.

You and I can meet freely now, can't we?

Motomiya Izumi

It's okay not to take it?

Yes.

Your girlfriend?

Your brother shaved off his mustache...

...and he was wearing ordinary clothes, too.

Then I guess that was him...

Eh? Where is he today?

Hmm... where was he?

Recently he's not been with the police but with the Prosecutor?

He gets calls from those sorts of people and goes out sometimes.

The Prosecutor? Why?

I wonder why?

I'm home.

Ah, welcome home.

Yo.

Yeah...

You came to the courtroom, didn't you?

Were you surprised?

Since the older brother who you thought was completely useless...

...suddenly showed up at your workplace.

No...

Still... why?

Was it Prosecutor Chiba?

I was contacted by that man.

He said he hoped I would cooperate as a witness.

Eh?

I'm a corporate dropout.

Because I got scouted by that Agawa-san's company.

When I met him at Venture Circle...

...he looked me over and said...

"An excellent guy like you shouldn't be lingering in obscurity at some company like yours."

"By all means, join my company and help save it."

Well... I was thinking this, too.

"I'm not a man who should end up in an ordinary company like the one I'm at."

So I quit my company...

...did some part-time work for a few weeks...

...and just when I was about to join his company...

...Agawa-san went and died.

So that was it.

Sorry for not knowing anything about it.

Well, you wouldn't, would you?

You had just passed the bar exam about that time...

...and were the promising young lawyer.

That's not...

I was surprised.

When Agawa-san's woman...

...turned out to be that tutor you had been searching for, since long ago.

Eh?

At the long-awaited appeals trial, should I try being a witness, too?

Hold on.

What are you going to testify about?

Let's see.

For example...

How about the story of the Defendant having sex with my younger brother up on the second floor of our house?

Well... there's an incredible amount of press here, isn't there?

Great, isn't it?

It's exciting.

He doesn't seem to be doing too well.

And he isn't taking meals, either.

I see.

Why didn't you answer my call yesterday?

Sorry.

I was still busy.

As ever, you're a terrible liar.

Ah... Lawyer.

Ah, good morning.

Sorry for being so noisy.

Excuse me.

How are you doing?

Well... truth is, I remembered.

On the day of that fire...

Yes.

Maria-san...

...did something a little strange.

At this thumping sound...

...I woke up a little...

なぐさめの台詞なら 今はまだ欲しくない Nagusame no serifu nara ima wa mada hoshikunai If it's words of comfort, I don't want those just yet

I...

...got this feeling I was watching something that I shouldn't be looking at...

...and so I immediately closed my eyes.

あなたのその声に 似合う言葉ではないから Anata no sono koe ni niau kotobade wa nai kara Because such words don't go well with that voice of yours

『これで終わりにしてよ』 切りだしたのは私 “Kore de owari ni shite yo” kiri dashita no wa watashi "We have to end this" The one who cut things off was me

きらめいてる想い出 錆びてゆくまえに Kiramei teru omoide sabite yuku mae ni Before these glittering memories turned to rust

It might be...

It might be that was...

『あきらめるには早い』 あなたはそう言うけど "Akirameru ni wa hayai" anata wa sou iu kedo "It's best to end it early," is what you said, but

やり直せないことはわかっているはずよ Yarinaosenai koto wa wakatte iru hazu yo You should understand we can't start over again

I...

...might have been happier if I hadn't remembered this, huh?

ふたつの現実(ﾘｱﾙ) ひとつの真実 Futatsu no RIARU hitotsu no shinjitsu The reality for the two of us was just one truth

こんな場面出遭う予感がしていた Kon'na bamen de au yokan ga shite ita I had a premonition of just such a scene when we first met

なぐさめの台詞なら今はまだ欲しくない Nagusame no serifu nara ima wa mada hoshikunai If it's words of comfort, I don't want those just yet

God is giving me a final chance.

あなたのその声に 似合う言葉ではないから Anata no sono koe ni niau kotobade wa nai kara Because such words don't go well with that voice of yours

I don't know what might happen from here on.

さよならも いらないわ Sayonara mo iranai wa I don't need goodbyes

But...

どこかへ消えてほしいだけ Dokoka he kie te hoshii dake I just want to disappear somewhere

...whatever does happen, I...

これが ﾗｽﾄｼｰﾝ あなたと私にふさわしい 最後 Kore ga RASUTOSHIN anata to watashi ni fusawashii saigo This is a suitable Last Scene for you and me to end it

This time, I will...

...become a saint.

To Be Continued

Drama 10

Seijo

Episode 4 "The Woman Who is Judged"

End